Social Rules: Origin; Character; Logic; Change
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- PART ONE THE LOGICIANS' AND PHILOSOPHERS' APPROACH TO RULES -- 1 The Representation of Rules in Logic and Their Definition -- 2 Hyperdeontic Logic: An Overview -- 3 Normative Explanations -- 4 Rules and the Rationality of Scientific Cultures -- 5 Changes of Rules, Issue-Circumscription, and Issue-Processing -- 6 The Nature of Customary Law in the Manor Courts of Medieval England -- 7 Worries About Quandaries -- 8 Rules and Resources: The Legitimation of Political Parties in France and the United States -- 9 Synoptic Comment on Applications of the Logical Theory of Rules -- PART TWO TRANSITION -- 10 Do We Know Enough About Legal Norms? -- 11 Notes on the Logic of Legal Change -- PART THREE THE ECONOMISTS' APPROACH TO THE ORIGIN OF RULES AND TO CHANGES IN THEM -- Comment on Reconciling the Philosophers' Approach with the Economists' -- 12 Institutional Change: A Framework of Analysis -- 13 Conceptions of Social Rule -- 14 The Origin of Rules in Uncertainty -- 15 Rules, Equilibrium, Beliefs, and Social Mathematics -- EPILOGUE SCHEMATIC SYNTHESIS -- By Way of Summary: A Schematic Synthesis of the Discussion -- APPENDICES -- 1 Proofs Relating to Chapter 11 -- 2 Deliberation and Rational Choice (Nicholas Baigent) and Comment -- About the Book -- Index
